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“Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“...Elsa had grown conscious of the fact that the girl hadn't read Harry Potter at all. She knew who he was, of course, everyone knows who Harry Potter is, but she hadn't read the books....And while Elsa didn't want to be elitist or anything, how could one be expected to reason with a person like that?
Muggles.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“But she doesn’t want to disappoint him, so she stays quiet. Because you hardly ever disappoint anybody if you just stay quiet.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry